“You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind. Now you're certain. You're so... sloppy. You don't know anything. The book, the math, the dates, the writing, all that stuff you decided with your buddies, it's just evidence. It doesn't finish the job. It doesn't prove anything.” ThinkingKnowsWritingMindBookRunningJobsCertainStuffChangedProveEvidenceDecidedLogicMathCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningBuddyOntologySloppyYou Changed Author:David Auburn
“I know friends of mine who have never changed their mind about anything in their lives, despite evidence from all directions. And I think if you can keep an open mind and some understanding, that helps you stay young.” IfsThinkingKnowsMindHelpingYoungUnderstandingChangedMinesEvidenceDespiteNever ChangeOpen MindKeep An Open Mind Author:Dick Van Dyke
“If any influential nation had the great spiritual strength to lay down its arms and appear with clean hands before the world, the world would be changed. I see no evidence that any influential nations has such great spiritual strength and courage. Therefore disarmament will be a slow process, motivated by the wish to survive.” IfsWorldHandsWould BeSpiritualNationsWishProcessChangedArmsEvidenceLaysCleanMotivatedInfluentialDisarmamentGreat SpiritualSpiritual StrengthClean Hands Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also changed. There was a new kind of politics to it - something that was very aggressive and dangerous - and a presumption that it would reveal some kind of truth or evidence.” PeopleKindDangerousChangedPhotographyEvidenceBridgesAggressiveArrestedBrooklynPresumptionBrooklyn Bridge Author:Trevor Paglen
“Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.” FactsBeliefChangedEvidenceCurrentsTopics Author:Ramez Naam
“Now everyone has eyes, and now everyone has evidence. That's really changed how we tell the news and what we get from it.” EyeChangedNewsEvidence Author:Trevor Noah
“DNI director [James] Clapper said as much many, many times, that there is no evidence that any outcome of the election was changed.” SaidChangedDirectorsEvidenceElectionOutcomes Author:John Lewis
“Sometimes people will have a heart attack or some devastating personal loss, and after that, their political views change completely, and their behavior changes completely. It's not because somebody persuaded them to look at the graph on CO2 and temperature, and they finally saw the evidence and were persuaded. Something else changed that allowed them to see and to hear. What is that something else? How can we cultivate that in people without them having to go through a heart attack? The interpersonal things we do change the substructure of our systems. They are political.” PeopleHeartSometimesPoliticalLossChangedBehaviorEvidenceHeart AttackPolitical View Author:Charles Eisenstein
“Archaeology is a science, and like all sciences, has its limitations. For one, archaeological discoveries made in the past centuries have been reappraised and reinterpreted by more recent findings. Some of the older positive claims, as well as most of the negative criticisms of the Bible, have changed, usually for the better. For another, the actual amount of archaeological evidence is quite small. It has been estimated that less than 1% of archaeological sites in the Holy Land have been excavated, and those that have been excavated have only been partially excavated.” PastChangedHolyEvidenceNegativeCriticismLimitationArchaeology Author:Randall Price
“What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.” ThinkingGivenClearHappenedChangedEvidenceGraphicSept 11 Author:Iain Duncan Smith
“Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of his life. While there remains even a plaintive memory, a person cannot be cut off, dead. And he thought, “It’s a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man’s life dies as a commotion in a still pool dies, in little waves, spreading and growing back toward stillness.” MenHumansLittlesPersonsLongStillsDiesProcessMemoriesCuttingGrowingEffectsChangedEvidenceRemainsWaveMeatPoolStillnessCows Book:Novels and Stories, 1932-1937 Source: Novels and Stories, 1932-1937
“I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.” BelieveFactsGovernmentPolicyChangedEvidenceDon't BelieveContributionBelieve You CanGovernment PolicyI Have ChangedI Don't Believe You Author:William J. Clinton
“But more than 15 sections in Chapter 8 of the report-the key chapter setting out the scientific evidence for and against a human influence over the climate-were changed or deleted after the scientist charged with examining this question had accepted the supposedly final text.” HumansEnergyEnvironmentInfluenceChangedKeysEvidenceScientistClimateFinalsClimate ChangeAcceptedSettingSettingsReportsChaptersSectionsExaminingScientific Evidence Author:Frederick Seitz
“With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than in fundamentals. Only those who prefer religious faith to beliefs based on reasoning and evidence can still maintain that the human species is the special darling of the entire universe, or that other animals were created to provide us with food, or that we have divine authority over them, and divine permission to kill them.” HumansStillsUniverseBeliefUnderstandingReligiousAnimalModernSpecialAcceptanceChangedDivineTheoryAuthorityEvidenceFundamentalsSpeciesDetailsLiberationReasoningPermissionDarlingReligious FaithHuman SpeciesAnimal Liberation Author:Peter Singer
“In the APS (American Physical Society) it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible? The claim (how can you measure the average temperature of the whole earth for a whole year?) is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degree Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this 'warming' period.'” IfsYearsHumansMeanHas BeensWholeEarthUniverseChangedPeriodsDegreesMassEvidenceClaimsClimate ChangeAverageBehaveGlobal WarmingStableTemperatureWhole YearHuman HealthChanges Over TimeProton Author:Ivar Giaever
“Climate has always changed year on year and is unstoppable as a phenomenon. I am sceptical of the 'evidence' being presented as fact and do NOT believe that the interference by Government will have much affect on changing temperatures or rainfall. Indeed as a gardener in the West of Scotland I look forward to warmer temperatures and more rain so will be doing nothing as an individual that can in any event be seen as tokenism to a perceived problem.” YearsBelieveLooksFactsProblemGovernmentIndividualEventsChangedEvidenceRainWestClimateGlobal WarmingPhenomenonScotlandTemperatureDoing NothingGardenerInterferenceUnstoppableRainfallTokenism Author:Brian Donohoe
“One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available.” HumansHas BeensEarthUsedNightDarkSpaceRaceLandChangedPlanetsDevelopmentDemandLimitsOceanExpectationsEvidenceAreasClimate ChangeAvailableCriticalForestsDesertAtmosphereHuman RacePoisonGlobal WarmingReachingAgricultureExploitationUrbanLitShrinkingUrban Development Author:Stephen Hawking
“A good trend following system will keep you in the market until there is evidence that the trend has changed.” ChangedEvidenceFollowingTrends Author:Richard Dennis